2-Letter Words Starting with A

Rating right-wing attitude as a psychological process

Abscess

Leaves shed as some scissors cut bonsai strain

His jazz opera illustrated the importance of being Ernst

Those who escaped ban crossed over

They take their leave without it

Muscles badly scorned by bad runners (wordplay)

Leaving secretly in a hurry

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance See transmittance ACIDOMETER (Chemistry) a type of hydrometer for measuring the relative density of an acid solution, esp the acid in a battery Also called acidimeter ACTINOZOAN & adj (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another word for anthozoan AEROSPHERE (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Archaic the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth""

""ABSORB to suck in, also SORB""

Terrycloth quality

Receptive nature of abbey treated with scorn

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

Removed, being absent-minded

Walked off with head in the clouds

Preoccupied when taken out

Abstract

Read this bodybuilding brochure

ABSTRACT to draw away

Abstrict

Ballerina's hairdo gets into the act (wordplay)

Article falsely acclaimed as scholarly

Well-read player from Hamilton (wordplay)

Bill gets a medical qualification from college

Academism

Floral designs used in architecture

ACARICIDE

Acaricide

Speeder-up in processing something.

Agent for hastening the progress

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

Without accent.

What to do with an acute etc (wordplay)

Worried about acne? Cut out stress

Emphasise smart goddess with brogue

Not bad welcome (wordplay)

Good enough but not great

Of (marginally) satisfactory quality

In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.

Occasion to give a speech

Granting admission to Powell's world

The world of Powell

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

Having a ramp, say

Open to be got at

Easy to talk to; approachable

How urgently needed equipment should be stored, as bicycles must be fixed

Accession

Accidence

Perhaps M is taken toothy to the end

Fortuitous bit of scoring (wordplay)

Flat, say, without planning

ACCIDENT a mishap

Accipiter

Acclaimer

Welcoming with shouts of joy

Giving praise to

ACCLIMATE To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

Acclimate

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

Finish off associate in crime soundly

Coach limps off to manage

Twisted coach limps for effect

(In) conformity (with)

Treating cancer a doc gets agreement

Agreement of opinion

Portable keyboard instruments

Squeezeboxes

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Bookkeeper, maybe chartered

Someone doing a balancing act (wordplay)

Relation without a tan in summer

Type of work.

FIRST-in, FIRST-out discipline

Giving a reason for financial processing

Accouter

Accoutre

Officially approved, as a college

Given official recognition

Like an Ivy League institution

Accretion

Noun (-ment)

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

Accuracy

Some maniac curate lying? Precisely!

It's precisely a copy you heard Ray let anyhow

Lacy shifts worn by one in church without any slips

In a hateful manner

Whodunit plot element

Charge copyright to America in case

Charge about, protecting us in battle

The case for the prosecution (wordplay)

Prosecution's case (wordplay)

Case which needs objective prosecuting

""Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. as, an accusatory libel.""

In an accusing manner.

Assigned blame, framing cat as usual

Usual train heading for East Germany

Familiar cat held by defendant

Without a chief

Acerbate

Acerbity

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

Deep cavity on the side of the hipbone that receives the head of the thighbone

The hollow that receives the head of the thigh bone

Acetamide

""A white crystalline compound, C 6 H 5 NH(COCH 3 ), formerly used in medicine to relieve pain and reduce fever. It has been replaced by safer agents because of its toxicity.""

Acetify

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

Acetylate

Acetylene

""ACETYLENE A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.""

Achalasia

Able to be accomplished

If you get it, it must be so

'It can be done - somehow I have' (Cable)

Achiness

Stony meteorite

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

Acidifier

Acidify

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

""The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.""

Acidness

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Organisms thriving in sulphuric pools or animal stomachs

Made slightly acidic

Acidulate

Acierate

ACOELOMATE

Serving to aid hearing.

Sounding accusal to premier in Istanbul, hopeless

Auditory

Familiar (with)

Know with with

Know with with

Complied without putting up opposition

Assented

Agreed

Caves

Capable of being acquired.

One who acquires.

Acquittal

Judges or juries, sometimes

Acquit

Acridity

Acrimony

Acritarch

Feats of agility

Gymnast's display

High-flying performance

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

Acrophobe

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

Pertaining to a kind of puzzle

""A readily polymerized amide, C 3 H 5 NO, derived from acrylic acid and used in synthetic fibers and sewage treatment. It is a carcinogen and is present in some foods, especially starches and cereals that are cooked at high temperatures.""

The process of doing or performing something: the act of thinking.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

In an actionable manner.

Void of action.

Activate

Process of starting up (something)

Being called up, military-wise

Removal from mothballs

Chemical catalysts

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

ACTIVIST an advocate of {activism=n}

Work, hobbies, social events, etc.

Cite a visit planned with things to do

Things to do

Activize

Splattered on my coat is a muscle protein

""Changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.as, saw his worst fears actualized.""

Actualize

Actuation

Acyclovir

Acylation

Adamancy

Hard things to break

Inside moves did seem like bad habits

'More of them, about one hundred, habitually (10)'

Adduction

Adequacy

Head off? New queen rejected church's observances

Adipocyte

Can lady jet off in a conterminous manner (wordplay)

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

'In deep of night when - / Hath locked up mortal sense' (Milton)

Decide (between claims or in games)

Decide officially on a dispute

Hear and decide (a case).

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

Not yet achieved adultery (wordplay)

Youth benefit stops rising

Minor trouble with the French cologne

One anorak turned up with some work, in charge of stimulation

Advection

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

""The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.""

Advocacy

Advocate

Commercial role being a defender

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Advocator

""A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.""

""A spongy tissue with large air spaces found between the cells of the stems and leaves of aquatic plants, providing buoyancy and allowing the circulation of gases.""

Loops and rolls

Exercising swallows at flying display

Stunt flying

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Aerospace

Principles of artistic beauty

Worry for the superstitious

Number lacking article on study of arts

AFFECT to act upon

In a pretentious manner

Affection

AFFECT to act upon

Affiance

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

Afflict

A Fine Romance: left in distress

Cause of pain or harm

Coburn's 1998 Oscar-winning film

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Affluence

Affricate

A woman who is a devotee or fan.

Coo! If Diana performs, I'm a fan!

Fan finds a fish, say, at island party

Fan (Spanish)

Aftercare

Afterclap

Areas astern, on ships.

Additional short sketch.

Van Halen song that resonates (wordplay)

WHERE'S THE WAVE (wordplay)

7-6 dessert wine (wordplay)

Aircoach

Cuts of beef.

Alacrity

Cheerful willingness; eagerness.

Affected with albinism.

I leave Saddam's henchman as indexed relating to elixirs

Some seekers of transmutation

Philosophers' stone seekers

Ones who think things are good as gold (wordplay)

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alchemize

They meet anonymously

Formal description of the people in talkies

Focus of the group started by Bill W.

Addiction to drink

Habitual intoxication

Like a city father with a clear mind

Local official's frenzied, hiding behind tree

Algaecide

""ALKAHEST the hypothetical solvent sought by alchemists, also ALCAHEST""

Loyalty, say, found in Nato maybe

Loyalty, say, within marriage

Loyalty, say, found in union

Causing one to react rashly (wordplay)

Causing a rash reaction (wordplay)

Like penicillin, to some

""Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions. Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions.""

Allocate

Divvying-up process

Assignment left in a particular spot

Arrangement of resources or funds

Allocator

""The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.""

Being genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species: allogeneic tissue grafts.

Of or pertaining to allometry.

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

Of or pertaining to an allophone.

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Zero latitude given to everybody, in more than one form

Everything round earthly circle existing in more than one form

A couple of lines? Old line on map taking more than one form

ALLOWANCE Approval; approbation.

Pays to play (wordplay)

Adjustments for expenses (wordplay)

Teenagers' earnings (wordplay)